Laughs after Loss

Jonathan Mark — celebrity psychic medium and consultant on major missing persons and cold cases, including the Gabby Petito case and the Long Island serial killer investigation — sits down with Robin and Emma for a reading none of them expected: he connects with Mark within seconds of sitting down, before even knowing his name. From there, the conversation covers how Jonathan discovered his gift a...

This week we sit down with Jodie Sweetin — best known as Stephanie Tanner from Full House and Fuller House , memoirist, and standup comedian — for a conversation that goes well beyond the sitcom. Jodie opens up about the grief she didn't recognize for decades: losing the show (and the only life she knew) at 13, years of addiction and self-destruction, and surviving an abusive relationship and stal...

Malcolm Kenyatta — Pennsylvania State Representative and Vice Chair of the Democratic National Committee — sits down with his longtime friend Robin (and Emma) to talk about losing both of his parents by age 26, running for state office weeks after burying his mother, and what it actually feels like to lose two statewide elections in a row. Malcolm is candid about the depression, weight gain, and d...

This week we sit down with Emilie Leyes — certified hypnotist, founder of the hypnosis app Doddle, and the author of the upcoming book Hypnotize Yourself: Harness the Power of Modern Hypnosis to Build the Life You Want (out in January 2027). Emilie walks us through the mystery illness that took over her life, the hypnosis practice that helped her heal when doctors couldn't, and — for the first tim...

Money and Haley Black (@beefingwiththeblacks) — the viral couples duo from North Carolina — sit down with Robin and Emma to talk pregnancy loss, the medical malpractice they didn't find out about until a year and a half later, and the baby they finally got to bring home. Plus, how Robin and Haley actually met, Money's bedtime-routine superiority complex, and Robin's closing wisdom on the one thing...

Robin and Emma sit down with Erin Tatum— creator, dark-comedy oracle, recent Dead Moms Club inductee, and the woman responsible for getting your favorite celebrities to crawl on the floor on a leash to raise money for ALS. Erin's mother Patti was her primary caregiver from birth and died of ALS this past year. We talk about searching for caregivers on TikTok (and the men who offered to do it for f...

Robin and Emma sit down with Tommy Vietor who got his start on Barack Obama's 2004 Senate campaign and went on to serve as White House spokesman and later as spokesman for the National Security Council, before co-founding Crooked Media and co-hosting Pod Save America and Pod Save the World. He lost his father, Tom Vietor, to bladder cancer in October 2010 after a brutal nine-month decline. A decad...

Shay Martin (@tannerandshay) sits down with Robin and Emma to talk about losing her husband, Tanner, to cancer last summer, the video he pre-recorded announcing his own death, and the hand written letter he left to their daughter to read on her future wedding day. Plus, Robin and Shay talk about being young hot widows and the differences dating as a young widow and a "semi-young" widow.  Follow @t...

  Robin and Emma talk to Jake and Andrea Kind, the mother/son duo behind @GoobiGubbi —the viral social media account that turned three generations of one Jewish family into an internet famous trio along with the late, fabulous, Mimmy. The conversation between the four of them is exactly what you'd hope for - a chaotic Jewish family with tons of jokes and even more stories. This episode covers how...

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro (@GovernorShapiro) sits down with Robin and Emma for our first-ever episode — on how he shows up for grieving Pennsylvania families, the arson attack on the Governor's Residence after Passover last year, and what he learned from getting cut from his college basketball team. Plus the love letter to his now-wife Lori that backfired catastrophically, and a Father's...

Robin and Emma Rosenthal are a mother-daughter duo who lost their husband and father, Mark, to a heart attack 15 years ago. What followed wasn't a quiet retreat into grief, but years of grief groups, family trips, and a deliberate practice of bringing their loved ones up in conversation, often through laughter. This is the show that came out of that. In the debut episode, they bring in their third...